The Google Play Games app has started testing a new section called “Hub” — a personalized news feed about mobile games.

A few days ago, a new version of the two-dimensional Corona game engine was released. Among the central innovations of version 2018.3326 is support for Facebook Instant Games and Direct Games in VKontakte.

Publisher Tilting Point, created by natives of Electronic Arts, announced that it will invest $132 million each year in mobile developers’ games, helping them to increase the app’s findability and get more traffic.

The Clash Royale strategy, one of the hits of the Finnish Supercell, has already brought its creators $ 2 billion, of which $40 million in the last month.

Analysts from Sensor Tower made the top 10 countries in terms of App Store spending per capita. It turned out that no country in the world can compare with Japan in this indicator.

Nick Pearce has developed a popular mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim called The Forgotten City. For his project, he received an award from the Writers’ Union of Australia, and now he is making a full-fledged game based on the mod.

At White Nights St.Petersburg 2018, Liftoff marketing platform manager Alexandra Issakova spoke about working with creatives. She also touched on such a topic as A/B testing of mobile advertising.

The status of Nintendo Switch as the main indie platform is strengthening every month. The other day, Nintendo’s top managers announced that they consider the indie scene an integral part of the Switch gaming environment and will work to ensure that 20-30 new independent projects appear on the platform every week.

Swedish-Austrian THQ Nordic continues to expand actively. The new purchase of the corporation is the German HandyGames, which develops and publishes mobile games.

Electronic Arts acquired Industrial Toys studio, specializing in the development of mobile games for gamers (for enthusiastic players – approx.). The studio was founded by Alex Seropian, who participated in the development of the Halo, Myth and Marathon game series.

Brazil ranks 13th in terms of spending by gamers, according to the analytical company Newzoo. According to her forecasts, by the end of the year Brazilians will spend $ 1.5 billion on the games.

The preliminary national standard for mobile applications includes 87 requirements for developers, but all of them are advisory in nature, according to Roskachestvo.

At the last session , White Nights performed Jean-Peter Ewert, who deals with business development and legal issues of Steam. He talked about how the platform works now. We offer a recording from the speech, which also included his comment about Steam Spy.

The AppMetrica analytical platform has announced new functionality. It is called “User Profiles”. This is a group of reports that shows data for each user individually. Among other things, we are talking about linking the history of his actions and attributes to the user’s profile.

The revenues of the mobile fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions have grown almost fivefold, analysts from Sensor Tower reported. It’s all about the release of the movie “Ant-Man and the Wasp” and the corresponding new content in the game.

Voodoo buys up search traffic. The most popular iOS gaming search queries are for its products. In the USA — Hole.io and Color Road!, in Russia — Helix Jump and Snake vs Block.

Using a loophole in the statistics of gaming achievements, Ars Technica calculated the approximate number of game owners on Steam. The most popular game in the store turned out to be Team Fortress 2, which has more than 50 million owners.

Australia currently ranks 14th in the world in terms of player spending, Newzoo analysts have calculated. The total revenue of the market in 2018 will be $1.3 billion.

id Software has always been famous for creating games on its own engines, but its new project, Rage 2, is made on Apex. The head of id, Tim Willits, told what dictated such a decision.